Nuno Grancho , Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has published the chapter 'Public Shared Places and Private Absent Divides. Identity and Space of Colonial Urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish Rules: Diu, Pondicherry and Tranquebar' in The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire. The chapter advances a decolonial framework for the study of architecture, urbanism, and empire, drawing on postcolonial, critical race, and feminist theories to examin

Photography by Pedro Ferreira The Routlegde Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology has published the chapter 'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House', co-authored by DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers Sandra Marques Pereira and Tânia Lemos , in collaboration with Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez. This study examines residents’ ways of inhabiting and their perceptions of the particularities of the Bouça Neighbourhood in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza. It does s

We are extremely proud to announce that t he project, ‘A bomba-relógio da abstenção’ (The Abstention Time Bomb), won the Data Journalism Award 2024 from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística . ‘The Abstention Time Bomb’ is a data research project by ‘Divergente’, in partnership with the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) and the research centre DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte. The study involved the data analysis from 27 European countries over 50 years, mapping the electoral beha

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Lídia Canha Fernandes , co-authored the chapter ‘ Exclusão Habitacional, Saúde Mental e Novas Substâncias Psicoativas’  (Housing Exclusion, Mental Health and New Psychoactive Substances), with Paulo Vitorino Fontes, Hélder Fernandes, and João Mendes Coelho, for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens , coordinated by Vasco Calado.  This publication, issued by ICAD - Instituto para os Comportamentos Aditivos e Dependências, aims to f

From November 19 to 28, 2025, Iscte – Knowledge and Innovation hosts the Science and Technology Week , featuring a series of events aimed at researchers and PhD candidates. The programme includes conferences, workshops, and training sessions focused on scientific research, innovation, and evidence-based public policy. All sessions are organized by Iscte-KI and the SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy. Admission is free, upon registration. Program me More info and registration h

The International Journal of Public History has published the article: Towards a Public Architectural History: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Engagement in Portugal and Spain Developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte – Ricardo Costa Agarez , Ana Mehnert Pascoal and Ivonne Herrera-Pineda , the article examines how publicly funded collective-use facilities, built since the mid-twentieth century in Portugal and Spain, continue to shape local life and resilience i

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios has just released its 50th issue (November 2025), which includes the thematic dossier "Águas que desenham territórios: reinventar os rios nas cidades contemporâneas" (Waters that shape territories: reinventing rivers in contemporary cities), organized by Nagayamma Aragão, Luciana Bragança, Diego Torres, Natasha Cabrera and Sergio Caruso.   Maria Assunção Gato Editor   Ana Rita Cruz Deputy Editor   Mariana Leite Braga Editorial Assistant & C

Location:  Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | Building 1 | Auditório JJ Laginha Date:   November 27 - 28, 2025 The conference  Shaping the Future of Data, Knowledge and Innovation with AI for Global Sustainable Change , promoted with the support of CoVE Future Skills Factory , will be held at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, between November 27- 28, 2025. The event will feature   Jay Liebowitz  and Vânia Neto as Keynote Speakers, joining efforts with GFIC

On 18 November 2025, Ricardo Costa Agarez will present and discuss the Arquitectura Aqui  initiative ( https://arquitecturaaqui.eu/ ) at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Auditorium 306, at 6 P.M., marking the conclusion of the first semester of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories 2025/2026. We all live, work, study and enjoy ourselves in spaces about which we know little. If we know more and better, and if this

The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development has published the article: Connecting adaptive reuse with cultural resilience frameworks: assessing monastic and conventual heritage in Southern Portugal.   Developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and CIES-iscte, from Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, the article explores how adaptive reuse of monastic and conventual heritage in low-density rural areas—specifically in the Alentejo region—

Location:  Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 2, Auditorium B302 Date:  12 November 2025 Time:  3:00 PM Admission:  Free As part of the PhD Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon is pleased to host the conference: O Jardim de Epicuro e o Realismo da Nova Arquitetura Portuguesa ( The Garden of Epicurus and the Realism of the New Portuguese Architecture). The session will take place on 12 November

Location:  Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 1, Auditorium 0NE02 - Caiano Pereira Date:  11 November 2025 Time:  6:00 PM Admission:  Free To mark the 50th anniversary of the Biophsyical and Landscape Planning Course, which began on 11 November 1975 at the University of Évora, and as part of Transnational Thematic Laboratories of the PhD in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Landscape Architect Aurora

Rita Calvário , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will join the ‘Socio-Ecological Transformation in Times of Regression’ Symposium, as guest speaker. The symposium will be hosted by the University of Kassel on December 4 th  and 5 th , 2025.   In the context of multiple ecological, political-economic, and social crises, the question of socio-ecological transformation has taken on growing importance in both activist and scholarly debates in recent decades. However, recent globa

The 7th Meeting Cidades, Arquitetura e Arquivos em contexto Ibero-Americano , coordinated by Paula André (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte), Paulo Batista (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo/DGLAB-CIDEHUS), and Ricardo Trevisan ( Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Brasília ), will take place on 24 and 25 October at the Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos. Information and registration  at: https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/7o-encontro-cidades-arquitetura-e-arquivos-no-contexto-

We are happy to share the new publication 'Comparative Approaches of Fast 360-degree Video-Based Survey of Inaccessible Heritage,' by the researchers Rolando Volzone  (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Francesca Galasso (Università di Pavia). In this work, the authors explored innovative 360-degree video-based survey methods for documenting fragile and inaccessible heritage sites, aiming to test how different camera paths (from simple perimeter walks to more complex trajectories) can in

Our new policy brief distills insights from the special session organized by EDITS — a global research network on Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations  — at the IST’25 Conference (Lisbon, 24–26 June 2025), together with the four EDITS Awarded papers, translating cutting-edge research into concrete actions for policy and practice. It focuses on four pressure points in sustainability transitions — trade-offs (speed–scale–scope), resistance, tech

The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório, will be screened at the Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival on October 28th at 6:00 p.m., at the Museu do Aljube. The documentary, which is part of the project Gendered power relations in agriculture: how rural women are facing gender inequality and struggling for more just and sustainable agri-food systems – the case of Portuga

Lucio Baccaro, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, was interviewed in the October 13th, 2025 edition of the Público , during his visit to Lisbon for the presentation of the lecture "Comparative Political Economy and the Growth Model Perspective" at the Inau gural Conference of the Master's and Doctoral Programmes in Political Economy 2025/2026 , held at the Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Read the interview here

Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa will host the Opening Session of the Doctorate in Urban Studies  (a joint programme between Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and NOVA-FCSH) on October 16th at 18:00 (6:00 p.m.) in Auditorium C1.04, Building 2. The session will feature a presentation by Professor Carlos Fortuna, Emeritus Professor of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra and Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimb

The Cátedra Internacional sobre o Envelhecimento ( International Chair on Ageing) project, developed in collaboration with several...

Following the participation of DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers   Inês Nascimento , Raquel Lopes , Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto   and Elian Stefa , under the scientific coordination of Alexandra Paio , in the Prémio Universidades da Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa Millennium , the project Immaterial Matters  was selected for the final shortlist of six projects and is currently on display at Garagem Sul – CCB, as part of the exhibition Lighter . Lighter  charts a path through e